In March 2023, Pope Francis was famously spotted on the street in a white, Balenciaga-style puffer coat. Except, of course, he wasn’t. The pope in the puffer coat was the entirely fictional AI creation of Pablo Xavier, a 31-year-old Chicago construction worker who fooled most observers. Suddenly, the media’s hand-wringing over how AI imagery might…
Early in 2024, new media artist and musician Ryoji Ikeda opened a solo exhibition in Tartu, Estonia, one of three cities designated by the EU that year as a European Capital of Culture. The show included the critical paths (2024), an installation using the DNA information of 100,000 Estonians presented in a data river that…
The National Black Arts Festival, one of the nation’s premier Black arts organizations, fights for its life as top leadership resigns and board dysfunction erupts into public view. :: When reached by telephone on Sunday, National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) Artistic Director Oronike Odeleye spoke in a voice raw not only from a cold but…
Painter Aineki Traverso’s studio at Atlanta Contemporary bears all the hallmarks of an artist with relentless creative impulses. Traverso works on many large-scale canvases at once, moving from painting to painting as inspiration hits. The walls are punctuated here and there with family photos, sketchy doodles and what appear to be small bits of larger…
In his new book, The Makeshift City (GOST Books, 2024), Georgia State photography instructor Joshua Dudley Greer tells the story of an ever-changing Atlanta in 69 color photographs made over the last half-decade. All cities are perpetually in flux. But in Atlanta, relentless change is something like a civic philosophy: The city has been remade…
There’s never enough time to read, but that doesn’t stop me from dreaming about 2025’s ample upcoming book and literary events. Here are nine of them that have me intrigued for the coming year. :: Civil Sights Atlanta’s Downtown Connector was famously routed specifically to kill off the country’s most prosperous Black business district: Sweet…
We’ve barely said goodbye to 2024, and yet it’s already time to start looking forward to what 2025 may bring. Here are seven things (plus one) that I am already thinking about as I look out at the horizon of Atlanta art for the coming year. :: Black abstraction Major exhibitions such as Giants at…
Brooklyn-based Artadia has been making grants to artists for 25 years. A new book details a few things the artists have learned over the years. :: When an organization turns 25, it becomes old enough that some of those who represent the organization were barely born when the organization was new. Such is the case…
Like a lot of meaningful art, Sean Fahie’s four books of poetry and visual artwork are the result of picking apart things that didn’t work: failed relationships, a halting career, the bewildering process of being human in the modern world. Somehow through all of this, however, Fahie (rhymes with “toy”) manages to keep his sense…
Between 2012 and 2019, Mark Steinmetz photographed Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, shooting nearly every publicly accessible part of it, including inside the planes themselves. Instead of the typically triumphalist images delivered by airlines and tourist bureaus we’re accustomed to, Steinmetz’s images are attenuated by a feeling of distance and an eerie sense of space. They…
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